By Elena Blanco-Suárez The session that I was most looking forward to at this year’s Society for Neuroscience (SfN) conference took place on Sunday November 13. The minisymposium titled ‘Astrocytes as active participants in neural

By Melanie Das We all know that microglia respond to damage, clear up pathogens, toxic proteins and debris. However, Dr. Beth Stevens wants you to know that microglia are so much more than that. Microglia

What guides neurons to establish their highly specific connections? In this post, Kevin Mitchell explores some of the research his lab and others have done to identify Elfn1 as a key player in synaptic labeling. —

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